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Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

Duncan, what's that building in one of your shots where only the roof is showing? Is it a riverside building, cafe or something? As above, good luck with all the cleaning up, rebuilding etc. - what a bummer! Hoping to hear that all Antipodean boats up there are okay.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

Originally Posted by RFNK

Duncan, what's that building in one of your shots where only the roof is showing? Is it a riverside building, cafe or something? As above, good luck with all the cleaning up, rebuilding etc. - what a bummer! Hoping to hear that all Antipodean boats up there are okay.

Rick

It's small jetty with a roof.

The definition of stupid has got to be the belief that more guns will negate the bloodshed done with guns.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

It's pretty apocalyptic in town, and all up and down the Tweed, amongst lots of other smaller towns. Crabbes Creek got smashed. It's a bit beyond comprehension.

Got a few shots of Merwillumbah main street on the news.. but most of the pics are not new now.

Interesting days sailing, wind and tide changes, lots of technical sailing with short tacks in close company, crowded buoys, course changes mid race (drifting tree trunks etc), other sailing traffic, a 40ft tri. that somehow got into the estuary but was having no luck getting out. Quite fun, the first cool day for a while.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

Police are now recovering the bodies after the car was found by sonar equipment about 5m from the northern river bank about 3.25pm.
Retired highway patrol officer Matt Grinham discovered the crash when he was driving to clean up flood damage at a family member's house.

The definition of stupid has got to be the belief that more guns will negate the bloodshed done with guns.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

Originally Posted by PeterSibley

I know, I was there today. The industrial estate has some strange rubbish. Great piles of wet bags of fertilizer! How to dispose of that ?

Liquid fertilizer, hmmm real puzzle that one.
I've canceled my trip to Boatworks. The weather is rubbish and our roadwork repairs have to take priority. It's raining right now, not heavy but just enough to make it unpleasant to be out in it. We have an excavator out doing some private work, moving rockslides off a driveway etc. He's going to widen our temporary crossing as well. He was most impressed with what we had done.
On a happy note I got all the belting material beveled yesterday and today should be equally productive.

The definition of stupid has got to be the belief that more guns will negate the bloodshed done with guns.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

I was literally around the corner from there on Sunday helping my clients at Husk clean up and Dulguigan road just looked too slippery so I made the choice to park my ute and walk to the distillery. Considering what happened yesterday I'm pretty happy I made that decision.

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

On a different note: does anyone actually enjoy setting and finishing gyprock? (Skimming/flushing or whatever it is called)....

I'm getting OK at repairs. Done about 20 patches in a friend's house that used to contain an angry young "man". I like the fibreglass tape for patching

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome and charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime" Mark Twain... so... Carpe the living sh!t out of the Diem

Re: Antipodean Boats Connection

Originally Posted by Larks

On a different note: does anyone actually enjoy setting and finishing gyprock? (Skimming/flushing or whatever it is called)....

I have to admit that I actually do. I tend to use a random orbital sander more than I should have to. But you go from pretty ordinary gappy slabs of gyprock, to a lovely smooth flat surface where you won't even be able to see the joins when it's painted, pretty bloody easily. That flushing compound to me is pretty close to the ultimate fit for purpose material. No strength in it at all, hard enough to stay put, soft enough to sand really easily. Beats the crap out of trying to sand any sort of epoxy that's for sure.

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I like the way the plaster sanding dust can get past 3 layers of taped plastic sheets, cupboard doors , refrigerators, hermetically sealed containers of cereal , and manages to even get into the outside garage and neighbours place.

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Going to try a different way to fit the staunchion bases. The idea is to bolt them to a timber pad and glue that to the deck with epoxy fillets around the edge. Worth doing or a dumb idea, time will tell. Actually I might do a test one and see if it breaks off easily.

The definition of stupid has got to be the belief that more guns will negate the bloodshed done with guns.